This makes me happy www.bizjournals.com/washington/n...

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

RIP to a real one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Groceries costing more? It’s not just inflation. "You can blame the admin's chaotic and destructive policies for the pain in your wallet," writes @tusk81.bsky.social These mass deportation raids are gutting the farmworker workforce, leaving crops unharvested, and prices soaring.

Folks @cgdev.org calculated which countries are most impacted new US foreign policy stances that affect trade, remittance losses, & aid cuts. Unshockingly, poorer countries are disproportionately hurt & US allies suffer just as much as non-allies. www.cgdev.org/blog/who-bea...

We out this myth versus fact re: the Refugee Convention and US proposed reforms. www.refugeesinternational.org/the-refugee-... Want to add a couple more points.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Mr. Sullivan noted that turning away from thorny global issues like climate change would not stop them from posing a threat to the United States, and the world. “The United States is not going to be as prepared and as capable to contend with this challenge going forward,” he said.

We’re cooked. AI is quoting AI.

On this first full day of fall, high temperatures across much of the South and Southeastern US are running 10°-15°F ABOVE average for September 23. 🔴Unusual, late September heat with a strong fingerprint of climate change (2x) to temps almost impossible without it (5x) 🧵/1

🌊 Are you an educator interested in resources on rising seas and coastal floods? Don't miss our Climate Central training session for grades 4-12 on using our Coastal Risk Finder tool. Today (!) September 22, 2025 5-6pm ET Register ⬇ go.climatecentral.org/crf-training...

Speakers at #NYCClimateWeek event note the dystopia we’re in: federal agencies that used to be the stewards of climate tools are now using the backed up version saved by @theimpactproject.bsky.social

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

Grisly but important reminder that environment & conflict links are often targeted assassinations of specific individuals apnews.com/article/envi...

Corals Won’t Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds

Full version of Climate Conflict Vulnerability Index now online. Our index maps the (co)occurrence of climate and conflict risks on a global level. The index is updated quarterly and provided at a 0.5° gridded spatial resolution. Explore the data here: climate-conflict.org/www

In 1951, the U.S. helped write the Refugee Convention though it didn’t sign it. Now it wants to lead the effort to end it. apple.news/AnMBpozsoRwa...

Wow, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is finally finished after 14 years. It’s huge, it’s mired in conflict, and it’s a riskier bet in a region experiencing increasingly severe droughts. www.npr.org/2025/09/09/n...

Very provocative paper (that I missed because there is no longer a reliable place to find these announcements). 'If adaptation projects are produced under unjust systems, maladaptation should be considered an expected outcome.' 1/ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's been awhile since I shared this starter pack. As the US SecDef says DoD doesn't do "climate change crap" and NATO considers stepping back from its climate commitments, outside experts on #climatesecurity are more important than ever. Who else should I add?

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

Hi new followers 👋🏼 ! I’m guessing you found me through the amazing @erinsikorsky.bsky.social or @catherinewong01.bsky.social. Welcome to all things climate, migration, security. And occasional musings about my cats 👍🏼 and the state of martial law in DC… 👎🏼

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN KOREAS Another brutally hot and humid night with records of highest minimums destroyed in pieces: 28.4 Gosan 27.8 Wando 27.4 Mokpo 27.2 Tonghae 26.7 Heuksando 26.6 Ulsan 20.3 Taegwallyong 842m asl Thousands of records have fallen in the area since June.

A new study in Science found that in one year, US mines discard enough lithium to power 10 million electric cars and enough manganese for 99 million. grist.org/science/us-m...

Also goes without saying but: We 👏🏼 need 👏🏼 more 👏🏼 longitudinal 👏🏼 migration 👏🏼 studies 👏🏼

“By 2019…30.9% of [New Orleanians displaced by Katrina] were still living elsewhere…Texas cities had proven stronger at keeping and even attracting more of them.” Elizabeth Fussell asks “what makes some places stickier…than others?” www.axios.com/local/new-or...

1/8 While the Trump administration talks about securing critical minerals, China just dropped $124 billion in Belt and Road countries in H1 2025—double last year and already beating 2024's entire total. They're not debating. They're doing. www.caixinglobal.com/2025-08-14/r...

Hurricane Erin went from Category 1 to Category 4 in 15 hours Y'all. That's well beyond our definition of rapid intensification. My update on the hurricane. It may not be done strengthening yet. Where is it going and how strong will it get? www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... --

"Over a two-year period the impacts of climate change added an average £361 to every UK household’s food bills." eciu.net/media/press-...

I propose 3 rules for meeting the expanding energy needs of Big Tech, fairly: 1) They pay the full cost; 2) No fossil fuels can be used (100% clean energy); 3) Communities have a fair say in siting decisions. @cleanvirginia.org @virginiaclinicians.bsky.social @virginiaclimate.bsky.social

'Statehood and the Protection of Persons in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: The International Law Association’s Contribution' - read my new piece with Walter Kaelin & Bruce Burson @kaldorcentre.bsky.social brill-com.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/view/journal...

In insurance speak, "subsidence" is when it gets so hot and dry that the ground shifts and it breaks building foundations. Common in clay-heavy soils that swell when wet and shrink when dry. One of the ways a heat wave can cause physical building damage.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

Oil exploration in the Congo basin rainforest could be a disaster for nature and the climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wildfires continue to burn across parts of the U.S. and Canada again, and air quality has dropped from "moderate" to "unhealthy" again for millions of Americans Thursday (lasting through the weekend). Here’s a quick 🧵 on how climate change is part of the smoke story 🔽

The U.S. skipped key UN climate talks for the 1st time in 30 yrs—just as China ramps up global climate diplomacy. 🌍⚖️ Soft power is shifting. Cede climate, cede influence. 🔗Scott Moore breaks it down for #NewSecurityBeat: www.newsecuritybeat.org/2025/08/the-...

More on wildfire response across Europe, including military deployments in Spain: www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/he...

The World Bank developed an AI-powered model to forecast refugee arrivals 4-6 months in advance from the DRC and S. Sudan. Testing showed an 80% accuracy. blogs.worldbank.org/en/dev4peace...

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

It was so fun to talk about our book "Migration and Displacement in a Changing Climate" with Hannah! You can listen to the conversation here. @universitypress.cambridge.org @rmcleman.bsky.social @kayly.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/migration-an...

Much better idea than using nuclear to power data centers. Meta signs geothermal power deal for New Mexico data centers www.utilitydive.com/news/meta-xg...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Here is some really good news! "an area covering 540,000 km² (the size of France), within which 108,000 km² (the size of Iceland) is primary forest, is in the process of being protected" www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

The Pasadena Humane Society needs donations for its efforts to save animals from the Eaton Fire, please consider donating. My family adopted all of our cats from the Pasadena Humane Society when I was a kid, it’s such an amazing organization. give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/...

@mayorbowser.bsky.social @wmata.com @wmatagm.bsky.social When will you plow the MBT? It’s been very difficult/dangerous for bikers and walkers this past week

Insured losses from natural disasters topped $140 billion in 2024, up from $106 billion in 2023, reports Munich Re, the world's largest insurer. “Climate change is taking the gloves off. Hardly any other year has made the consequences of global warming so clear.” www.munichre.com/en/company/m...

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